Teplice (CZ)
Teplice is a town in the Czech Republic, the capital of the Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region.In 1895 Teplice merged with neighbouring Lázně Šanov (Schönau). With the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after World War I, the predominantly German-speaking population found itself in newly established Czechoslovakia. Right-wing political groups like the German National Socialist Worker's Party referred to themselves as Volksdeutsche and began to urge for a unification with Germany, their efforts laid the foundation for the rise of the Sudeten German Party under Konrad Henlein after 1933. With the Sudetenland, Teplice was annexed by Nazi Germany according to the 1938 Munich Agreement. At the same time the persecution and expulsion of the Jewish population began, culminating in the demolition of the Teplice Synagogue, once the largest in Bohemia. After World War II the Czechoslovak government enacted the Beneš decrees, whereafter the "Ethnic German" population was expelled from Teplice (including the princes von Clary und Aldringen, lords of Teplice since 1634) and expropriated.
